Zookeeper Nave Geva, with a parrot perched on hand, introduced a collection of furry friends, birds and mammals to displaced children from Kibbutz Nir Oz who are living in a hotel in Eilat. Photo: Chabad of Eilat
Therapeutic Petting Zoo Rises From the Ashes in Eilat
This was no ordinary preschool class. Three of the children in the cohort had been kidnapped by Hamas and kept hostage in Gaza. Two had been returned home in the temporary ceasefire deal at the end of November, but the third, Ariel Bibas, remains in captivity.
